Plasma Media Center 1.2 was released as a Christmas gift. Now, we bring to you Plasma Media Center 1.3! As always, we have made sure to make it easier to enjoy your favorite videos, music and photos - both from your collection as well as online sources. A big focus has been performance improvements when showing you the media on your computer as well as general polish for the UI.

Plasma Media Center in action

What is new?

Support for fetching media from Baloo
Plasma Media Center now supports fetching your media collection from the new KDE Semantic Search - Baloo.
This means your media library loads faster than ever. However, PMC continues to support Nepomuk if you have KDE libraries installed.

MPRIS support
This lets you use any sort of controller that supports MPRIS to control PMC - this ranges from taskbar previews, Now Playing plasmoid and many more!

(Experimental) support for a simple filesystem based media scanner
For when you don't have Nepomuk or Baloo installed

More details in All Music mode
We now show more details about media in the All Music mode, like artist, album and duration.

Improved GStreamer compatibility
A conflict between GStreamer0.10 and GStreamer1.0 in some distros will no longer break playback (Launchpad Bug)

We now have tests for the PMC core libs
This will lead to less bugs in the future!

Numerous bug fixes and UI polish

MPRIS support allows deep desktop integration

Installing PMC 1.3

Follow instructions here to install Plasma Media Center on your machine from source. For binary packages, check with your distro if they have. If you're a packager (or know someone who is), we will be glad to help if you have any questions.